[FlyingBrickAnnouncements] punk and mental health talk

[Mara Hyman]

yes!


On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Nathan Stickel
<incoherentnickle at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Katrina Hamilton <
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>> Sounds good to me
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>> On Mar 22, 2013, at 3:09 PM, allison libertine <allibertine at gmail.com>
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>> As long as there's n o objections, I'd like to give the okay to them by
>> Monday.
>> Allison
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>> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Ellen Crawford <crawfordee at vcu.edu>wrote:
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>>> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:10 PM, allison libertine <
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>>>> Hey all! My friend Michelle passed this on as something we could host a
>>>> the brick. i'd like put this on with the help of someone else (i might have
>>>> to work that night but could possibly get my shift covered, but if I can't
>>>> I'd still like to bottom line and help set up before work.) I can get in
>>>> contact with the speaker. I just want to run it by ya'll. Any objections?
>>>> Does it interfere with another event?
>>>> Let me know!
>>>> Love and Garlic,
>>>> Allison
>>>>
>>>> Hello Michelle - I hope all is well. A while back you expressed
>>>> interest in helping organize my talk in Richmond. I would like to tour in
>>>> June and I would like to speak in Richmond on Friday 6/7. I have included
>>>> my pitch below. Please let me know what you think. You can check out some
>>>> testimonials about me speaking at my website www.punksinrecovery.com the
>>>> website is still being developed however it can give you an idea of what I
>>>> am up to. Thank you very much and take good care - Craig
>>>>
>>>> My name is Craig Lewis and I have lived in the Boston area my entire
>>>> life and I am now 39 years old. I was very ill for a very long time with
>>>> various symptoms of a mental health condition. My life was terrible and all
>>>> who knew me knew that I was very unhealthy as well as living a very
>>>> dysfunctional life.
>>>>
>>>> I have been involved in the punk scene since I was a teenager and the
>>>> punk community has witnessed me out of control of many occasions in the
>>>> past. I truly lived a life of suffering and misery. In the past several
>>>> years I have been in what we call in the mental health world, 'recovery'. I
>>>> have learned excellent coping skills and helpful symptom management methods
>>>> that have been highly effective and instrumental in me rejoining society as
>>>> a mentally healthy adult. I now work as a mental health peer counselor for
>>>> a large mental health agency in Boston as well as the Department of Mental
>>>> Health
>>>>
>>>> I am both a punk rock and mental health activist
>>>>
>>>> I have made a remarkable turnaround in my life and I am living a
>>>> successful and healthy life.
>>>>
>>>> I have prepared and written an approximately 50 minute long
>>>> presentation titled "Punk Rock, Mental Illness and Recovery" and I have
>>>> presented at the Democracy Center in Cambridge, at Heaven Street Records in
>>>> Brooklyn, New York, Libertalia in Providence, Rhode Island, The Big Idea
>>>> bookstore in Pittsburgh, The Wooden Shoe collective in Philadelphia, a
>>>> collective house in Washington DC and Collective-A-Go-Go in Worcester, MA,
>>>> and received a wonderfully warm and generous response on each occasion.
>>>>
>>>> I believe that there are many people in our community who could benefit
>>>> from hearing me speak about my life experience and I want to help my peers
>>>> and those in the community at large, gain a healthier perspective on the
>>>> real probability of recovery from mental illness and the life improvements
>>>> that people can experience who suffer from life impacting symptoms, both
>>>> major and minor.
>>>>
>>>> I would greatly appreciate it if you could get back to me at your
>>>> convenience to hopefully further discuss and potentially plan this event.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you very much.
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>> Craig Lewis
>>>>
>>>> 857-719-4840
>>>> punx.in.recovery at gmail.com
>>>> Punk Rock Mental Illness & Revovery
>>>> www.punksinrecovery.com
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